SaxonRobber

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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
I wanted to like Reason, but it is now clearly a dead end. Its torn identity between JS and OCaml has killed the language.
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
Imagine believing this
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
Because it lowers the housing stock in urban areas. Wealthy travellers will pay more for accommodations than the local market, so apartments become airbnbs and investors gobble up condos and housing which they turn into short term rentals.
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
Airbnb was supposed to be a platform for sharing your house, not starting your own distributed hotel.
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
Probably
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
The corporate structure institutionalizes immorality, it cannot be avoided. By law shareholder profits come first, everything else is secondary to that goal.
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
The person filing the paperwork still isn’t necessarily the one who made the call. In fact, it usually isn’t; they are just the ones whose responsibility it is to carry it out, or else their head is on the block.
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
It is my experience that everyone who self identifies as a republican or democrat is brainwashed at this point. The worst offenders are those who are so delusional that they mock anyone who avoids political discourse or abstains from votin
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
Investment is gambling, smarts are winning.
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
can we get compile time constant variables? something cleaner than enums and defines
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
That excludes a huge number of students who will have never had the experience to try programming before university. I never did any programming before my first year, I was planning on going into economics. But then I took an elective in C
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
This is only true if your applications are mostly high level glue.
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
But it is. A good compiler could unroll my loop and rewrite it with the appropriate vector ops. But that isn’t possible with just python right now.
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
Damn you’re edgy
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
This is a pretty pedantic definition. Plenty of excellent programmers are not mathematicians. How would that work if programming were just math? That’s like saying physics is just math while ignoring all of the experimental parts that hav
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
Go succeeded because it was largely ignored by Google. Dart was the darling language which flipped miserably and has only recently became relevant.
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
They are proven with with math, but their implementation in code certainly isn’t. If it were that simple, we would be using languages like Coq and TLA+ for writing software. But we usually don’t, because math does not cleanly translate in
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
I think only academics with a background in CS will typically be familiar with functional programming. For everyone else, they will have used something simpler like Excel, C, R, Python.
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
This is actually one of the most frustrating parts about using python. You can’t write normal python code that performs well. Instead you have to use the numpy dsl, which I often find unintuitive and too often results in me needing to con
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
My analogy was to compare wood and vinyl as building materials for flooring (I guess I omitted that) and asking if the existence of something newer invalidates something older. I am skeptical that all language features make code better. It
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
Julia is similar to matlab by design, which makes it easier for science and engineering folks who are already familiar with it. I think functional programming advocates underrate simplicity of procedural languages. Programming is not math,
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
Why does a language need changes to be alive? We don’t ship languages, we ship code written in them. It’s like claiming wood is dead because we have vinyl.
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
At what point is enough enough?
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
C++ has had decades to replace C, but it’s really stalled and even lost ground in embedded systems. I can’t see Rust faring much better. C might end up being an eternal language until there is a dramatic enough shift in operating systems
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
I think this readjustment would tend towards extracting more money from fewer people who can pay and letting the rest go without care.
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
And then those same Lispers will whole sale write off procedural Algol like languages as being "lesser", despite everything that that has been accomplished with languages like C.
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
And stay away from flavour of the month dominated domains.
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
Don’t try to reason with clojure zealots, they are just as bad as rust zealots and also less relevant.
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
He’s also rewritten the same book about 5 times and walked on water after a copy of sicp hit him on the head.
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by SaxonRobber 6y ago
I find ML languages easier to read than Lisps, but that’s an unpopular opinion.

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